Abolish Slavery VA

Fighting to end all forms of slavery in Virginia, once and for all.

[Abolish Slavery VA @Abolition_VA]

YESSSS!! Thank you so much @Sam_Rasoul for always having the courage to say the things that NEED to be said! You bring hope to VA politics🖤🍉

[Sam Rasoul 🍉 @Sam_Rasoul]

We didn't elect Benjamin Netanyahu to have a say in our government.

[AAUP@Mason @AAUPMason]

Collective bargaining for faculty = fair treatment = job security = protection from political interference = a fearless faculty pursuing the truth = a world-class education for Virginia's students 💯💯💯 @donscott757.bsky.social @vasenatedems.bsky.social @vademocrats.bsky.social

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

Private prisons are criticizing ICE on their investor calls for not filling up their prisons fast enough.

Your reminder that ICE is a for-profit industry — and the companies profiting are big campaign donors to the politicians voting to fund them.

[Worth Rises @WorthRises]

New Tool! Find out if your representatives have taken campaign donations from the corporations fueling ICE’s mass deportation efforts @theappeal @inthesetimesmag https://t.co/eMXBDeDaFl

[Sam Rasoul 🍉 @Sam_Rasoul]

Enough of the weak statements from Democrats who want to dance around the edges with the idea that Trump's thugs can be reformed if they just had a little bit more training.

Abolish ICE.

Anything less is pure cowardice.

[Sam Rasoul 🍉 @Sam_Rasoul]

No amount of retraining or reform is enough.

Abolish ICE.

[Dr. Allison Wiltz @queenie4rmnola]

“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”

― Malcolm X

[Sam Rasoul 🍉 @Sam_Rasoul]

That's right. Democrats up and down the ballot must have the courage and moral clarity to fight injustice everywhere. That means being unafraid to be honest about the genocide in Gaza.

[Rob Poggenklass @rpogge]

We need better regulation of plea agreements. In Virginia, 90% of all felony convictions happen by guilty plea—not at trial. This is MOST of the criminal legal system, and it’s bad.

[Abolish Slavery VA @Abolition_VA]

@rpogge Absolutely!! Due process depends on informed consent at conviction, so one aspect of that regulation should be requiring judges to disclose explicitly that acceptance changes their legal status, exposing them to loss of constitutional protection against slavery under existing law

[Abolish Slavery VA @Abolition_VA]

Throwing it back to two years ago when the U.N. investigated and condemned systemic racism in the U.S. policing, criminal legal, and prison system describing “appalling” conditions and decrying forced unpaid convict labor as a “contemporary form of slavery.”

[United Nations Geneva @UNGeneva]

Systemic #racism against people of African descent pervades US 🇺🇸 police forces and criminal justice system, and US authorities must urgently step up efforts to reform them, the UN Mechanism on Racial Justice in Law Enforcement said in a new report today: https://t.co/E0kHpfLKRP

[Zohran Kwame Mamdani @ZohranKMamdani]

Our time has come, New York.

Our time is now.

[Senator Angelia Williams Graves @AWGNorfolk]

How dare the Governor send a letter as if to reprimand us for doing our jobs. He is not “Big Poppa,” and we are not his children. We were here before he came and we’ll be here once he’s gone, still fighting for Virginians and protecting democracy. #VAPolitics

[Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi @CongressmanRaja]

60 people in one cell. Detainees forced to sleep standing up.

These aren’t just illegal actions happening within the Broadview ICE facility; they’re inhumane and immoral.

It’s time ICE and Trump allow Members of Congress to enter and inspect these facilities.

[Ben Crump @AttorneyCrump]

Strapped in a restraint chair, Samuel Hayes died inside the St. Louis City Justice Center. There have been allegations of inmates being hit with pepper ball guns while in their cells. Now, a top jail official is under investigation. This is not correction — it’s cruelty.

[Mark Warner @MarkWarner]

The humanitarian situation in Gaza is unconscionable.

I’ve repeatedly spoken up to support more humanitarian aid, and today I’m calling on the Trump administration to press Netanyahu for immediate change.

[Abolish Slavery VA @Abolition_VA]

Statement of Solidarity with GMU and UVA as they come under attack by the Trump Administration in a brazen, calculated assault on the principles of democracy, academic freedom, and civil rights.

https://t.co/NDre6s1okT

[Senator Jeff Merkley @SenJeffMerkley]

Unidentified federal forces in unmarked vehicles grabbing people off the street is straight out of the authoritarian playbook.

We need to pass my bill to ban these secret police tactics and protect our fundamental civil rights and democratic republic.
https://t.co/98rlwiWw66

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

No member of Congress who voted for this disastrous legislation should be re-elected.